3/14/2008

Last year, I created these graphics for the Vodafone 920 package. The model is now on the shelves. It's always exciting to see my work hit the streets (sometimes it can take over a year from the time the project was completed). Vodafone has been busy with some unique innovations lately. I look forward to watching them evolve. Click-Zoom.

Exhibitions

Matt W. Moore works to the credo of ‘range is conducive to growth.’ Like many artists of his generation, Matt’s background was in action board sports and the action art of graffiti, each with their core value of speed, do-it-yourself ethic, enthusiasm for new terrain, and sheer fun of collaboration. Over the past decade, he’s applied those principles to his bold, graphic aesthetic in media both analog and digital, for projects both personal and commercial.

As founder ofMWM Graphics, Matt dubbed his digital abstract style ‘Vectorfunk’ early on in his career, and has since employed it to cover surfaces ranging fromRay-Ban Wayfarersto Almond Surfboards; anApple Desktop, Coca-Cola’sLondon Olympics Campaign, and an entire issue of Wired Magazine. Whether working in fine art or commercial applications, Matt W. Moore finds that each sparks the other. Graphic design projects often inform the Monumental Murals he paints in city neighborhoods around the world. His annual series of Watercolor Paintingsin black and white might inform futureLogo Designs. Cross-pollinating between disciplines allows him to constantly refresh his perspective and produce unique work. Applying his vision to new surfaces or in collaboration with others always proves his credo.

Many of Matt’s most memorable projects have been at the intersection of art and design, and often involve substantial collaborative processes.These range from his own initiatives, such as his clothing line Glyph Cueand his home goods line Core Deco, to projects initiated by others, such as painted outdoor sculptures for Moscow’s Sretenka Design Week, robot-generated Sharpie marker drawings done with aModified CNC Machine, and curated projects such as murals at Art Basel Miami Beachor corridor-length wall paintings inBarcelona’s Vincci Hotel. Leaving himself open to the inspiration of new places, materials, and looming deadlines, for the majority of his projects with art galleries, he arrives to the venue empty-handed, creating the entire body of work as a residency on-site, whether in Paris,São Paulo, or Cincinnati, and always with accompanying outdoor murals and street paintings.